[Vision2020] Alarming Information about our fellow citizens

[Bob Hoffmann]

This reminds me of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), where 
before the Berlin Wall came down, many younger citizens believed that East 
Germany fought with the USSR against Nazi Germany. The ideological bias of 
the government can do wonders in obscuring basic history, whether or not 
this is intentional.

At 05:25 PM 2/6/2003 -0800, Melynda Huskey wrote:

>"At the end of the first week of January, the Princeton Survey Research 
>Associates polled more than 1,200 Americans on behalf of the Knight Ridder 
>newspaper chain. They asked a very simple question: "To the best of your 
>knowledge, how many of the September 11 hijackers were Iraqi citizens?"
>
>"It should be impossible for a person who has lived through the last 16 
>months not to know the name and face of Mohamed Atta, believed to be the 
>lead hijacker, and to have at least some nebulous sense of the identity of 
>the hijackers. For much of this time, the nation in toto was umbilically 
>joined to the media's saturation coverage, with hourly "terror alerts," 
>scrolling "terror" news tickers, and panoplies of talking heads sprouting 
>a confetti of 10-second sound bites. Surely some information must have 
>been imparted.
>
>"The Knight Ridder survey appears to reveal a quite different reality. Of 
>those surveyed, only 17 percent knew the correct answer: that none of the 
>hijackers were Iraqi. Forty-four percent of Americans believe that most or 
>some of the hijackers were Iraqi; another 6 percent believe that one of 
>the hijackers was a citizen of that most notorious node in the axis of 
>evil. That leaves 33 percent who did not know enough to offer an answer. . . ."
>
>"A National State of Confusion," Kane Pryor, Salon magazine
>
><http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/02/06/iraq_poll/index.html>http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/02/06/iraq_poll/index.html
>
>Melynda Huskey
>
>"The things that make us happy make us wise." John Crowley
>
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Bob Hoffmann
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